Winsock problem in 64 bit windows

[Varghese Paul M]

Hi everybody, The line of code

SOCKET sock = socket(AF_NETBIOS, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);

works fine in windows XP 32 bit but fails in windows server 2003 enterprise 64 Bit. The WSAGetLastError() returns error code 10047. Any idea where I am going wrong? The code is given below which prints "Success" in 32 bit OS but prints Error: 10047 in 64 bit OS

void main()
{
WSADATA sockdata;
WORD wVersionRequested = MAKEWORD(2, 2);

int stat = WSAStartup(wVersionRequested,&sockdata);
if(stat != 0)
{
	printf("Error initializing winsock\\r\\n");
	return;
}

SOCKET sock = socket(AF\_NETBIOS, SOCK\_DGRAM, 0);
DWORD errcode = WSAGetLastError();

if(sock != INVALID\_SOCKET)
{
	closesocket(sock);
	printf("Success\\r\\n");
}
else
{
	printf("\\r\\nError: %d\\r\\n",errcode);
}
WSACleanup();

}

cheers Varghese Paul

[Lost User]

Error code 10047 states: "An address incompatible with the requested protocol was used.". Are you sure that the lana address value in your socket() call is correct? See the description here[^] for an explanation.

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[cmk]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb870913(VS.85).aspx[^] "Netbios is not supported on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and subsequent versions of the operating system." Maybe that list should include Win2003 x64 as well.

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